<b>Donald S. Lopez</b> (July 15, 1923 – March 3, 2008) was a former U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force fighter and test pilot and until his death the deputy director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. In 1948 he married Glindel Barron, sister of Florida State Senator Dempsey Barron.<br/>Father of professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Michigan Donald S. Lopez Jr.